The Habitable Zone

While the star Kepler-1649c orbits is much smaller than our Sun, it gets about 75% of the sunlight Earth does.

When we talk about the enormity of the cosmos, it’s easy to toss out big numbers – but far more…

What kinds of stars are most likely to host habitable planets? A new study finds a particular class of stars…

We’ve discovered thousands of worlds orbiting around other stars, called exoplanets, including many that are similar in size to Earth. …

Scientists now have a good estimate for the age of one of the most intriguing planetary systems discovered to date–…

The habitable zone is the area around a star where it is not too hot and not too cold for…